It seems like KTorrent doesn't send a STOP signal to the tracker when I quit it. It's very important!

Can you get this fix in the coming-soon release (1.2)?

edit: I'm using KTorrent SVN (I downloaded that yesterday) with Gentoo 2005.1-r1).

When we stop a torrent, the stopped signal should be sent to the tracker, but maybe it does not get enough time at exit. I will have to examine it.

George wrote:When we stop a torrent, the stopped signal should be sent to the tracker, but maybe it does not get enough time at exit. I will have to examine it.

Ok, thanks!

Maybe you can use ethereal to see if the HTTP request gets sent, there should be event=stopped somewhere in the HTTP request.

George wrote:Maybe you can use ethereal to see if the HTTP request gets sent, there should be event=stopped somewhere in the HTTP request.

I don't know that program... what should I look for?

ethereal records all packets sent over a network interface, and then it analyzes each packet and tells you what it is (UDP, TCP, HTTP, ... it supports pretty much any protocol).

http://www.ethereal.com/

You just have to look for TCP packets going to the tracker (you can find the hostname of the tracker in the log file, use nslookup to figure out it's IP).

When you have found the packet look at it's content. The last TCP packet going to the tracker should contain event=stopped.

update: not solved!!!

I'm installing Ethereal so I can provide better debug information.

Ok, I tried it with ethereal. KTorrent tries to send the stop message but sometimes closes before can send it...

Possible solutions?

We wait for 250 ms, should be more then enough for a responsive tracker to get the message.

Can you double it? 500ms still won't be noticed by users...

OK, anything more will probably be to much. I will change it to 500ms with my next commit.

Thanx...